The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-09-16

81 e"AVuBn 'hat streotf On, mol you VIII
gay, "Pll SO around the block" Now,
men come and look upon this narrow
path TO Heaven, and sometimes see the
ecclesiastical brickbats flying every
whittier, and q ey say: swell, l guess I'll
take the broad road; IL It is so rough, and
there is so much sharp shooting on the
narrow road, guess I'll try the broad
road"
Francis l. so hated the Lutherans that nc
said II he thought there was one drop OF
Lutheran blood in his veins he would
puncturc them and let them drop out
just as long as there is so much hostility
between denomination and denomination,
or between one professed Christian and
another, or between one Church and an
other, just so long men will be Disguised
with the Christian religion, and say, "lf
that is religion, want none of it,"
Again, bigotry and sectarianism do great
damage in the fact that they hinder tho
triumph OF the Gospel. Oh, how much
wasted ammunition, how many men Of
splendid intellect have given theigwhole
life TO controversial disputes, WHEN, IL
they had given their life to some thing
practical, they might have been vastly
useful.
Suppose this morning, while I speak,
there wero n common enemy coming up
the bay through the Narrows, and all the
forts around New York began to fire into
each other, you would cry out: National
suicide! Why don't those forts blaze
away in one direction, and that against
the common enemyl" And yet / some
times see in the church OF the Lord Jesus
Christ strange thing going on-church
against church, minister against minister,
denomination against denomination, firing
away into their own fort or the fort which
ought to be on the same side, instead OF
concentrating their energy and giving one
mighty and everlasting volley against the
navies of' darkness riding up through the
bay.
go out some times in the summer, and
find two bee-hives, and these two hives
are in quarrel. l come near enough not
to be stung, but come just near enough
to hear the controversy, and one beehive
says: THAT field of clover is the sweet
est" and another beehive says, "That
field Of clover is the sweetest" / come In
between them, and 1 say, "Stop this
if you like that field OF
clover best, go there; IL you like
that field of clover best, go there;
but let me tell you that that hive which
gets the most honey is the best hive" SO
! come out between the churches of the
Lord Jesus Christ. One denomination of
Christians says, THAT field OF Christian
doctrine is best" and another says, "This
field of Christian doctrine is best"
Well, l say, $50 whore you
-. IL, h..
church which gets the most honey of
Christian grace for the heart, and tho
most honey OF Christian usefulness for the
life.
Besides that, IL you want to build up any
denomination, you will never build it up
Oy trying to pull some other down
Intolerance never put any thing down.
How much has intolerance accomplished,
Tor instance, against tho Methodist
Churchi For long years her ministers
we're forbidden the pulpits OF Great Brit
lin Why was 1t that so many Of them
preached in the fieldsl Simply because
hey could not get in the churches. And
he name OF the church was given in deri-
ion and as a sarcasm. The critics of the |
,hurch said: They have no order, they
lave no method in their Worship" and |
he critics, therefore, in irony called them |
'Methodists."
i am told that in Aston Library, New |
York, kept as curiosities, there are 7O7 |
looks and phamphlets against Me hodism.
did intolerance stop that churchi No; il |
$ either first or second amid tho denomi.
ations OF Christ!andom, her missionary
tations in sll parts Of the world, her men
lot only important in religious trusts, but
also in secular trusts. Church
on, and the more intolerance
gainst 1t the faster it marched. What
id intolerance accomplish against
he Baptist Churchi II laughing scorn
nd TRADE could have destroyed the
hurch it would not to-day have disciple
eft.
The BaptiSts were hurled out OF Boston
a olden times. Those who sympathized
nth them were confined, and when pc
tion was offered asking leniency in their
ehalf, oil the men who signed IL were in
icted. Has intolerance stopped the Bsp-
st churchl The last statistics in regard
, it showed about 81, 900 churches and two
nd a half million communicates. Intol-
rance never put down any thing.
In England law was made against the
ew. England thrust back the Jew and
lrust down the Jew, and declared that no
sw should hold official position. What
lme of i'll Were the Jews destroyeii
o. Who became Prime Minister of Eng
Ind years agoi Who was next to the
lronei Who was higher than the throne
ecause he was counselor and adviser
he descendant OF Jew. What were we
in all our churches as well as
. few years agoi The Tooth
-thday anniversary of Montefore, the
reat Jewish philanthropist. Intolerance
,ver yet put down any thing.